Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-09-17
CONFEDERATE SURVIVORS.
Analyst. by q Southerner Of the Con-
fe'lerate Army.
Especial Correspondence

Spw Nnpv S.pr Io-"Snu ara AWAY off
in v,ur not,nns ahout tin. Conf.l.rates in the
.,n,b said r,.r,.r Of a Gaorgi. regiment
10 m. tb. other day-.sway off can show
Won tb., they ,r. very few indeed compar.d
with m. Federal ,,ryivorsr
.Wbv ,b.r,. c.rtainlv ar. several thou-
sands Copfed.r,tes in this very city - r..
pIiaj .and wouId not your muster roll, show
how many suryivei"
.W. bnve nou.-yo,, all 90. '.m at the SIR
r.pdsr Bnt Iook here how many octual
men do Won s;,rnosa tber. ,y.rs, in the C,nf.d-
erats army not coun,inl doubl. enlistmsntsp
.Ob a million or two"
at would crowd ,em TO e., much over half
a million. Now. i, is true there are hundreds
of the survivors in this city. and probably
80 ooO in all the north and the territories: but
am positive there are no, $50 900 in ali the
sixteen southern states today-not one man
To fifty of the entire popula,ion. You can
s,a by tn. c.nsus that all the white us,ople in
the Confederate states in lst;l were no more
than : 10 np at the ou,sid. Now what is
th. bigyes, n.r cent of its pnnuIotion ,b,. n
country can send to warf believe no coun-
try in the world ever sent one in seven: and.
situatei as the soutb was-a big territory and
A. 600 go slayes-it couldnt have sen, one in
eight
But did Won not get many from the tor-
der s,a,.s-s,ates that did no, se,a,,ar,
Not so many as the F..leraIs go, from the
states that did ,ecede Blaipes book says the
two balanced. hut he only commits the mon
from insi,i, the Couf.daracv that were ,cfu.
ally counted in the FEDERAL army. while. in
fact ther, were tNic. that many refup.s.s
But did not YOUR close conservation GET
Close CONSUMPTION where. When that was
enforce,t one-haIf the Confederate territory
WAS in the Federal Iines-all Tennessee. half
Of Nis.issipui Alabam, north of tbs river
most OF Louisiap. and all the tbr.. states
west OF the Mississippi were cut off. and clear
out of our jurisdiction. In fact. the las,
cuuscription. the searching one was only en-
forc.,i in five states. and in mart Of them i,
COS, NOR. than i, came to TIE law .x.mp,ei
men who worked twenty slaves. and of
course Men had TO he l.f, at home tn RIM
ferries. railroads, etc. There is no wxy of
getting all the ab e bodied men OF a country
into an army You must have some men To
hold the machinery Of society together.
and in so big region as the Con
feieracy there had to be a good MANY
such. Now. divide all the whit. peon,e in
the Confederacy by eight and Won wouli have
us OOo. and that, nbout 100 OoO more than
ever were in the Confederate army ira
simple matter OF ficur.s-vou can't ga, =.
man ,bor, h. iSp,, Sr,,., r. 80, -.
.,,a, - 'Ii -. ~, .'eS
have 100000. Now, the Federal muster rolls
show that they had :;55.oOO white men from
the south. and the vote in the border states
in 1854 showed that big majority of their
man WAS a, bou.. 50 ubars c,uli IN. g..
taSara.,- h,ra ,,a, ,i,o .,. 80, r.
- ,n' Ane'e
ano'nei way 70 get at H. anu thaIs the parole
All the paroles together amounted To ~ r44-
-'o" aih Jus' rs '''e''s i''o'e LOT suerriiias
ana PRISONERS III the hof'h, an" YOU nave but